Duran Duran was offered sex by so many young women during the group’s US debut, the band’s call sheets included the local age of consent in every state they played.

“Of absolute necessity for any touring musician is the itinerary,” bassist John Taylor recalls of his group’s first US tour, in 1981, in his upcoming autobiography, “In the Pleasure Groove.” “In the left-hand corner of each page of the US itinerary, there was a number, usually 18, 21, or 20. It was months before I was let in on the secret. The numbers referred to the legal age for sexual intercourse in that particular state.”

Taylor says he was in such a haze of sex and drugs that another sheet handed out daily included such basic information as “Today is October 3. It is Friday. You are in Chicago.”

Despite the adulation, Taylor says, in a manuscript obtained by Page Six, he began to use women and drugs to stave off loneliness on tour.

“I didn’t want to be lonely, and the drugs ensured I never was,” he writes in the book, out from Dutton this fall. “I’m a pinup on thousands of bedroom walls, but the fear of loneliness is turning me into a cokehead.”

Three years after Duran Duran — which includes Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes and will open the Olympics in London this month — debuted in America at New York’s Ritz, the band sold out Madison Square Garden, which he calls “the biggest ego venue in the world.”

They also recorded at the Power Station, where,“Dylan was down the hall,” as were Mick Jagger and Bryan Ferry. “I’d never seen more drugs in my life,” Taylor, now sober, writes. “The access to cocaine was unlimited.”

“Everyone wanted to party with me,” he recalls, “but behind the party face, I was caught up in a vortex of fear, arrogance, loneliness and extraordinary popularity.”

After heading to rehab and getting his life back together, Taylor, now married to Juicy Couture co-founder Gela Nash-Taylor, says, “The addictions are still there, and keeping them at bay requires work.”